The Progress. [volume] (White Earth, Minn.) 1886-1889, 1887-11-12
FOREIGN.

ADv1CEs Of the 31st ult say that an up
rising against the Government of Guate-
mala had been suppressed, and the leader
of the movement and four of his followers
who were captured had been shot.
/ A DISPATCH OF the 31st ult says that thou
sands of lives had been lost and an inn
mense amount OF property damaged by the
overflow of the Yellow river in China The
Emperor of China had given SIS, 600, 900 for
its Improvement
The sentence of three months imprison-
ment passed by he magistrates on William
O'Brien, NJ P, for using seditious language
in his speech at Mitchellstown, was con-
frmed at Dublin on the 31st ult, and Mr.
O'Brien was placed in Jail
The loss by the recent foods in the Rome
district in Cuba was estimated on the 31st
u't at over 81 ,OOO, O0o
CoNsTANT1NoPLE advices of the 31st ult
say that the Mormon brethren in the United
States had applied to the Porte for yermis-
sion to establish community in Turkey,
and it was expected that the request would
be granted.
AFuR1ous gale ragged throughout England
on the LIST, causing considerable damage
to telegraph wires and resulting in a num-
Der OF minor causalities.
The British bark Temple Far, bound for
Rio Janeiro, foundered in the British chan
mel on the 1st and the crew, numbering
eighteen, were lost.
COUNT DE LESSEPS announced to the
Academy of Science in Paris on the LIST that
the Panama canal would be opened Feb
| ruary 8, 1890 ~
The town OF Klusin, in the province Of
Minsk, Russia, was DESTROYED by fire on the
LIST. Three hundred and fifty houses and a
number of stores were burned and many
lives were lost - 8,
The discovery of extensive gold fields in
South Africa was reported on the ID
The municipal elections in England on
the I'd resulted in favor OF the Gladston-
ians --..... ...r..
JENNY LIND, the Swedish Nightingale, y
quietly passed to rest on the I'd in London,
at tbs age ofAsixty-six years She first
made her appearance in public as singer
in London in 1S49, and in 1850 appeared
in the United States under the auspices of P.
T. Barnum. -..
The number of persons who emigrated
from Germany to the United States during
the ten expired months of 1887 is upward
of ten thousand greater than that for the
corresponding period of 1886.
A DISPATCH OF the Sd from Boulogne says
CIsto ILL -uluc uSucIulcu 1OSU tu6lT lives Ill u
recent gale At Etables seven bodies dashed
together had been washed ashore ...t
AN assignment was made ON the Sd by
John Harvey and j. B. McQuestion, proprie-
tors of WOODEN mills at Hespeler, Ont. Their
liabilities were placed at 100000.
The British Cabinet resolved on the 3 i to
continue it's present vigorous policy in Ire
land, especially as regards speeches at pro-
claimed meetings. -ts--.-+--.s -
MISS ELLEN POWERS, of PetersF oro Ont.
met strange death on the Sd While hunt
ing in a trunk she tainted and her head fell
inside the trunk, the lid closing over her
neck Death from suffocation occurred in
few moments. ~
TWENTY-FIVE men lost their lives in lead
mine at Matlock. Eng, on the Sd owing to
an explosion of tire-damp. .
TIE Truro cathedral, which was opened
on the Sd, is the first one that has been
built by the Established church in England
since the Reformation. pc
RUSSIAN police on the Sd discovered
another Nihilis5 plot. They raided the
headquarters of the conspirators, made sew
eral arrests and found large number of
bombs .~.s-